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<h2 class="chapter">14 Reporting Bugs</h2>

<p>Please send bug reports to the current maintainers by electronic
mail.  The address to use is &lsquo;<samp>&lt;bug-stow@gnu.org&gt;</samp>&rsquo;.  Please
include:
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<li> the version number of Stow (&lsquo;<samp>stow --version</samp>&rsquo;);

</li><li> the version number of Perl (&lsquo;<samp>perl -v</samp>&rsquo;);

</li><li> the system information, which can often be obtained with &lsquo;<samp>uname
-a</samp>&rsquo;;

</li><li> a description of the bug;

</li><li> the precise command you gave;

</li><li> the output from the command (preferably verbose output, obtained by
adding &lsquo;<samp>--verbose=3</samp>&rsquo; to the Stow command line).
</li></ul>

<p>If you are really keen, consider developing a minimal test case and
creating a new test.  See the <samp>t/</samp> directory in the source for
lots of examples.
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<p>Before reporting a bug, please read the manual carefully, especially
<a href="Known-Bugs.html#Known-Bugs">Known Bugs</a>, to see whether you&rsquo;re encountering
something that doesn&rsquo;t need reporting.
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